American anchor for Iranian TV is arrested on visit to USA prominent American anchorwoman on Iranian state television has been arrested by the FBI during a visit to the US, the broadcaster reported Wednesday, and her son said she was being held in a prison,...
Shah of Iran modernized his nation but vacillated in crisisAt the height of his power in 1971, Iran's Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi drew world leaders to a wind-swept luxury tent city, offering a lavish banquet of food flown in from Paris to celebrate 2,500 year...
Zimbabwe doctors’ group says 68 treated for gunshot wounds after protestsSixty-eight Zimbabweans have been treated for gunshot wounds, 17 of whom underwent emergency surgery, after violent protests this week triggered by a steep rise in fuel prices, a doctors' group said o...
Turkey-backed fighters await ‘zero hour’ to attack Syria’s ManbijOpposition commander Adnan Abu Faisal and his army are encamped near the frontline in northern Syria, waiting to launch an offensive on his home city of Manbij. But they are not the ones who will deci...
Shooting victim who became a doctor takes aim at US gun violenceAt age 17, Joseph Sakran was shot in the throat after a high school football game -- a life-threatening injury that set him on the path to becoming a doctor. Now a trauma surgeon who fights to save sh...
Saudi women runaways rebel against system of male controlAnother Saudi woman has turned to social media for protection from her father, just days after Canada granted refuge to Rahaf al-Qunun, the 18-year-old Saudi who fled her family. Identified only as No...
Sex seminar model who claimed Trump secrets deported from ThailandA model from Belarus who was arrested during a "sex training seminar" in Thailand and then claimed to have evidence of Russian interference in US President Donald Trump's election was deported on Thur...
Divided and riven by crisis, Britain searches for Brexit ‘plan B’Prime Minister Theresa May will try on Thursday to break the impasse in Britain's political elite over how to leave the European Union by searching for an emergency exit deal, though there is so far l...
Thai universities tap into rising Chinese demandChinese national Cherry He Ting rattles off in fluent Thai as she presents her masters thesis ahead of graduating from a Bangkok university, where she has studied for the past three and a half years....
Trump’s new missile defense strategy eyes space-based sensorsUS President Donald Trump is due to unveil a revamped US missile defense strategy on Thursday that looks at ways to boost America's security, including by possibly deploying a new layer of space-based...
Giuliani: ‘I never said there was no collusion’ with RussiaUS President Donald Trump's personal attorney, Rudy Giuliani, on Wednesday insisted he "never said there was no collusion" between Trump's 2016 presidential election campaign and Russia -- only that T...
Putin to receive a rock star welcome in BelgradeWith T-shirts, mugs and murals bearing his face, Russian President Vladimir Putin is set to receive a rock star welcome on Thursday when he lands in Serbia, Moscow's key ally on the edge of Europe. Pu...
Tell us what you want, German conservative Weber urges LondonDelaying a March 29 deadline for Britain's planned exit from the European Union only makes sense if London sets out plans on how to proceed after British lawmakers rejected the draft Brexit deal, Germ...
2020 Democrats face a choice: Fight Trump or ignore him?Democrats weighing presidential campaigns in 2020 face a stark choice: how — and whether — to respond to President Donald Trump's pugnacious and insensitive attacks on his political opponents. If Demo...